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Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
…Howard Husock is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press 2025). Bruce D. Meyer is professor of public…
Op-Ed
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…and long-term dependency. The average time in public housing is 12 years; in voucher housing, 10. New research I’ve done with the University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, based on…
Working Paper
Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness
Abstract Data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate an unprecedented 43 percent increase in the number of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States…
Op-ed
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…
Working Paper
Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation
Abstract Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme…
Op-ed
Not Just Tulsa
…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…
Report
The Size and Census Coverage of the U.S. Homeless Population
Abstract Fundamental questions about the size and characteristics of the homeless population are unresolved because it is unclear whether existing data are sufficiently complete and reliable. We examine these questions…